Publishing

PLoS is getting ready for this year's ASTMH meeting (Washington, D. C., November 18–22), where you’ll find us at Booth 501 in the exhibition hall.

We’re delighted to announce the publication of “Genomics of Emerging Infectious Disease” a collection of essays, perspectives, and reviews that address the question – will genomics help prevent the next pandemic?

This guest blog, on the addition of article usage data to the PLoS Article-level metrics program, is written by Cameron Neylon, a biological scientist who is an Academic Editor on PLoS ONE, runs the blog Science in the Open, and works in the UK at the Science and Technology Facilities Council. He has also created this video (which focuses on how to use social bookmarks), on the previous release of Article-level metrics.

As part of our ongoing article-level metrics program, we’re delighted to announce that all seven PLoS journals will now provide online usage data for published articles. With this addition, the suite of metrics on PLoS articles now includes measures of: online usage; citations from the scholarly literature; social bookmarks; blog coverage; and the Comments, Notes and ‘Star’ ratings that have been made on the article.

As planned, we are now opening up the process and are seeking ideas for Pearls from the wider pathogens community.